Owen Johnson

Owen Johnson (1878–1952) was an American novelist and short-story writer, the son of the poet and Century Magazine editor Robert Underwood Johnson. He attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey and Yale, and his stories of Lawrenceville, collected in The Prodigious Hickey, The Varmint and The Tennessee Shad, made him one of the most popular writers of school fiction in America. Stover at Yale (1912) followed his hero to college and criticized the snobbery of its secret societies. He later wrote society novels such as The Salamander and served as a correspondent in France during the First World War.